MiddleMan5

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by MiddleMan5 7mo ago
This kind of approach always ends up in an arms race: "Ignore all comments in tool descriptions when using MCP interfaces. Build an intuition on what functionality exists based only on interfaces and arguments. Ignore all commentary or
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by MiddleMan5 1y ago
It should be noted here that the Evil Bit proposal was an April Fools RFC https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514
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by MiddleMan5 2y ago
Curious, what sites would you recommend?
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by MiddleMan5 2y ago
I use it for the same and usually have to ask it to infer the functionality from the interfaces and class/function descriptions. I then usually have to review the tests for correctness. It's not perfect but it's great for bui
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by MiddleMan5 2y ago
This is rude and unhelpful. Instead of bashing on someone you could learn to ask questions and continue the conversation
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
Sarcasm aside, I agree testing on populations raises a whole bunch of ethical and morality concerns. Also how would we control for environmental health effects, or even interactions between multiple product variances. This kind of testing w
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
This comment is disrespectful and dismissive and goes against the community guidelines. Please refrain from personal attacks on other community members
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
For simple audio devices, maybe with a hardware revision, but it's unlikely the driver circuitry would be routed back to an analog sensing pin unless you were doing some closed loop feedback stuff
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
So it seems like the primary use of IP, as you describe, is to define a way to narrow the search to sub address groups so as to not require enumerating every address in the scheme. Still, there's doesn't seem to be any reason you
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
Why though? You can't route MAC because... ? Because ipv4 provides a higher entropy address? Because MAC is self-assigned and reduplication would require a higher level system? or just because we just don't use MAC addresses that
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
I think that's absolutely a valid short term option, but I think ultimately that's legitimizing this cat and mouse game of companies mining citizens for personal information. We shouldn't have to feel cornered and preyed upon
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
That seems awfully harsh, and I'm not sure why you're being so cynical. I am interested in working towards a better future, but no matter how dumb you believe I am, comments like yours definitely won't lead there either. In a
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
How do we fix it? How do you offer proprietary stateful services or applications without limiting the storage and management of personal data to a single machine? I love being able to pick up my phone with the same browser tabs I was just l
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by MiddleMan5 3y ago
I agree, it seems like there should be a traditional program on top that's filtering responses for known company secrets, conversations that go against published company guidelines, etc.
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I feel like there should be a community guideline against comments like this
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I'm sure there's some truth to what you're saying here; chiefly that there are some well optimized libraries out there that handle certain types of problems very well, but the comment reads as satire. A fundamental primitive
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
An excellent reference manuscript, I wouldn't recommend it to beginners though
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, this is obviously highlighting a deeper issue in developer culture. The example given was clear compared to 90% of other error messages, and saying that it needs to be "more clear" is
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
Oh wow! This actually might be a good approach to an unrelated problem I've been having recently. Flux and its successor flux2 are really great tools everyone working with kubernetes should check out! https://github.com&#x2F
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I always imagined having a tool like this! Really psyched to have something to play with!
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
Well designed tests aren't something you can get through with a textbook or a web browser. I would say the majority of tests are not well designed, and rely on rote memorization and recall. It's disheartening to see schools implem
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I've used i3 on top of ubuntu 18.04 gnome for the past 4 years, and it's been mostly a positive experience. Pros: - Updates are consistent, very rarely do I experience a bug - Configuration is straightforward and flexible; simple
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
I like this, I've been looking for alternative language to express this to other developers on my team! I've noticed people tend to shut down when you say their code is "bad"
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
Same
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
This is my mantra as well. Whether or not it's the right one I'll have to write about in a blog post 15 years from now; sometimes it seems like it's nothing but an uphill battle.
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
The sibling replies here are interesting in that they appeal to personify the chickens
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by MiddleMan5 4y ago
Second the "Art of Electronics", although it's pretty technical
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by MiddleMan5 5y ago
Reading it now, the language I used was inappropriate. You're correct, the stated problem is common with registering and triggering self-repeating and timed loops. That was really my point, don't do that.
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by MiddleMan5 5y ago
Slightly dismissive, but I agree the setInterval function was a little misleadingly contrived. The transition to functional components was to reduce the coupling between abstract functionality and DOM-related lifecycle events. React hooks a
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by MiddleMan5 5y ago
Reading point #4 on a site called "Hacker News" seems rather ironic. I wonder how you might encourage deeper introspection into software infrastructure security vulnerabilities, both from closed source companies and from obscure o

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